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Small Dungeon

Here's a quick little dungeon. I'm trying to get back into the swing of things since I'm so out of practice. I've included a colour and black & white versions of the map (as I usually do). The shaded areas represent the lower elevation of the dungeon. The arrow from room 22 to room 14 represents a declining slope.

That map I started several months ago. I sat down last night (while drinking some sake) and finally finished it. And yes SG, I hear the machine warming up as well - well, mainly the cries from the cartography gnomes as they are whipped into shape.